Shirt



Dec. 30, 1930. G A R|PLEY 1,786,919

SHIRT Filed Dec. 26, 1928 mmm Fatented Dec. 30, 1930 PATNT QFFICE GEORGE A. RIPLEY, OF DALLAS, TEXAS SHIRT Application filed Irecember 26, 1928.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in shirts.

The invention has to do with the collars of shirts. The collar frequently wears out or breaks at the seam, while the remainder of the shirt is unworn. This is particularly true if the collars are starched. t is now the practice of laundries to starch attached collars as well as detached collars.

10 It is impossible to replace attached or detached collars because all shirts fade more or less when washed and a coilar of new goods would not match. It is dii'ficult to find goods to match because as a rule a factory uses all 15 the goods it has on hand when manufacturing its shirts.

One object ofthe invention is to provide a surpius of material with the shirt from which a new collar may be made when needed.

A particular object of the invention is to secure a strip of self material to the shirt in some convenient place so as to be washed each time the shirt is washed, thus fading equally t-herewith.

i A further object of the invention is to remove the strip from tl e shirt and reface the I worn coliar therewith, thus producing a new collar exactly matchingl the shirt and saving the shirt from being discarded because of a worn out collar.

Further reference will be herein made to the foregoing and other features of the invention, which will be more particularly pointed out.

In the following specification an exemplification of the invention is set forth and this is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a view of a shirt with a portion of 4-0 the front broken away to show a collar strip sewed to the inner side of the shirt back, and

Fig. 2 is an enlarged Vertical sectional View taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings the numeral 10 designates '15 a shirtshaving an attached collar 11. The

shirt is of the usual construction.

Across the inner side of the back 12 of the shirt is sewed a strip 13 of the same material of which the shirt is made. This strip of ma- "O terial has a marginal hem 14: turned under Serial No. 328,347.

and secured to the shirt by stitches 15. The right or face side of the goodsis exposed.

Then the shirt is laundried the strip will fade equaily with the shirt and thus will always match the remainder of the fabric. If the collar 11 should become worn or break on its seam fold, the 'fa-ring or outer covering of the coli-ar is removed. The strip 13 is then ripped from the back of the shirt and used to replace the collar covering. The removed co co-vering may be used as a` pattern by which to cut the new covering from the strip.

The strip 13 may be called the collar, strip. IVhile I have shown a shirt with an attached collar, the invention may be applied cs to detachable collars of the same material as the shirt. A shirt manufactured with this (roll-ar strip may be returned to the factory with a small payment and the worn collar replaced from said strip, thus with a small ad- 70 ditional cost the customer may prolong the life of the shirt and save the same from being discarded because of a worn collar, when the balance of the shirtis intact.

YVhat I claim, is: 'zs

As an article of manufacture, a shirt having a collar of the same material as the shirt and provided with a strip of the same material as the collar stitched transversely on the tail of the shirt and forming a part thereto of, said strip having its face exposedj and being of such shape as to be utilized to recover the collar.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature. 

